August-September 1958 Village scenes (poor image color and quality) in Poland, geese in water, tractor and farming. A family carries kindling on their backs. Man plays piano. Good views. Girls at school, on porch, gardening, bread, milking goat. Now in a village, CUs of Polish children - looking at camera, digging in the dirt, and eating dumplings. Without your surname at the time you traveled, it is difficult to find if you were on the ship. Men load hay onto a truck. Boys reading newspaper, eating, trombone, equipment & uniforms on the street. HJ, motorcycle. The subject shifts to a different scene: MLS, following a man in the woods, out to hunt birds with his rifle over his shoulder, camera pans up to bird's nest. Pan, Warsaw. Item: 27995 Surname: Allen First Name: Frederick VS of flags waving; military milling about the stadium. This is an incomplete version of the film "Siege" and does not have Julien Bryan's soundtrack. CU Smiling woman with her arm around the man. **, Scenes from the Giesche zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, circa 1936. INFORMATION CENTER'' building with people standing out front. Helpful details include: the passenger's first and last names; approximate year of arrival; "ethnicity" (which may include race, nationality, and/or religion); approximate age at arrival; ship of travel; port of departure; and whether the passenger traveled with other family members. Men on scaffolding. CU of a man blowing a warning whistle, cut to a large statue of a mermaid wielding a shield and a sword, an unidentified bridge and the Vistula River are visible in the BG. Amusement area, building: "Im Gelsheimer Krug". CU Older woman reading a newspaper. Stewart (AP-140), USAT General M. B. Stewart, USNS General M.B. LS of three young boys running about on a farm. 01:10:57 INT, degenerate art exhibition, DaDa inscription. END of Reel 1 - writing on film leader indicates Reel 2 begins. Flags. VS of Polish workers building the Pilsudski mound. Eating, look at NS propaganda, postcards with Hitler at street vendor, eating. Arts and Architecture magazine. Renamed SS Albany when she entered commercial service in December 1968, the 10,530 gross ton cargo ship was sold to Avondale Shipyards, Inc. who converted her into Drill Ship Mission Viking for Mission Drilling & Exploration Corporation (later Mission Viking, Inc.) of New Orleans. The sign reads "Der Botschaft der Union der S.S.R. EXT, patrons sit at caf tables (again), talking, smoking. Large group of young women on an outing, all are wearing overcoats and berets, VS of new building construction, Julien Bryan's notes mention shots of the Parliament building and the higher army court; an open truck full of men in suits drives up to this new building, they all go inside. CU of the German soldier getting his hair cut, another German prisoner (with a Hitler-style mustache) is smoking and talking to a Polish officer as a doctor looks on. 01:19:53 Autobahn with trucks, high shots. Holocaust Memorial Museum will help you learn more about the Holocaust and research your family history. Farm building and truck. Bucolic lake countryside. Woman seated with row of men standing behind them, looking at booklets and framed portraits together. A sequence of CUs of the dead bodies. Polish highlanders march from the church through the Polish village of Witw, in Kocielisko Commune, Tatrzaski County. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration The three men discuss the machine at some length, the footage is silent, and there is no record in Julien Bryan's shot lists that indicates why this action was shot, who these men are, and why they are watching this demonstration and discussion. Men shovel into the fire. People, refugees, destroyed buildings in Warsaw. The doorway is marked in Polish with "Wejscie do Kosciola"[the entrance to the church]. She picks up her daughter for a CU for the camera. More LSs of Nazi elite, including Goering, Goebbels, Hess, and others standing in middle of Nuremberg's square. Frontline footage of the Polish army with tanks and cavalry attempting to defend their lines. [2], In 1978, Mission Viking was central to a dispute between Mission Viking, Inc. and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). MS of a guillotine. CU man leading song. Between 1950 and 1955 General M. B. Stewart also sailed from Bremerhaven, Germany, to New York and Halifax, Nova Scotia, transporting thousands of European refugees to the United States and Canada under the International Refugee Organization. View of the city of Salzburg. 01:15:14 INTs, women take lessons for cooking, changing diapers, medicine. This event occurred on September 16, 1939 during Rosh Hashanah. Loading coal on ships, one with "HEL GDYNIA" painted on the side. 01:07:20 Horse and carriage, EXT palace (Potsdam? Truckloads of workers also exit the factory- they are all seated in open military style supply trucks.VS, EXTs the factory in Linz, smoke stacks, etc. While resting at roadside two girls perform a singing act for the camera, flirtatious, very animated. VS, panoramic shots of the countryside. 01:04:57 CU of a wall riddled with bullet holes. Farm machinery and truck in field, harvesting. Boys in pool. MLS three young children in the street, walking toward the camera, they smile, continue walking until they are out of frame, then the camera captures them from behind, continuing their walk through the barren streets of the destroyed city of Warsaw. Item 7 - General Stewart arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 8 - General Haan arrived Melbourne - passenger list; Item 9 - General Greely arrived Fremantle - passenger list; Item 10 - Skaugum (II) arrived Fremantle - passenger list; Item 11 - Amarapoora arrived Newcastle - passenger list; Item 12 - Brazil arrived Sydney - passenger list Another flag is draped on the roof of the building to warn the German planes. House & Garden, Better Homes and Garden, and Good Housekeeping magazines. Two Polish soldiers walking along, one is carrying a bunch of high black boots over his shoulder. Rowboat on a river. This scene was shot in the Pancraz prison in Prague postwar. Animation begins of New York City buildings and trains as the woman gives voiceover. Large buildings in Prague. Daily life in southeastern, northeastern, and central Poland, 1936, Polish cavalry on maneuvers, street scenes in Warsaw, scenes in the countryside, 1936, Mountain views and street scenes in Zakopane, Title credits for the film "Poland - the Country and the People", Street scenes and establishing shots of Krakow, Animated maps and titles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People", Establishing shots, street scenes and buildings in Krakow, Graphics and intertitles for the film "Poland - the Country and the People", Establishing shots of village life in Katowice, Preparations for Easter in the region of Lowicz and Witw, Staged scenes of domestic life and folk dancing in the region of Katowice, Scenes of rural life in the region of Katowice, Nazi Germany trims: Autobahn, HJ, Woolworth's, zeppelin, "Der Stuermer", exhibitions, Nazi Germany trims: Leica factory, ferry, Pestalozzi Froebel Kindergarten, airplanes, peasants, exhibitions, nursery, tobacco, anti-Jewish signs, Goldschmidt school, Street scenes in Berlin; Pestalozzi Froebel Haus kindergarten; Kranzler Cafe; Woolworth; telephone, Polish YMCA: classroom, orchestra, swim team, Prelude to war in Poland; Polish army; Smigly-Rydz, Immediate aftermath of the German invasion of Poland, Nazi soldiers; rally; Hitler Youth; military parade, Documentary about the German invasion and siege of Poland, Zinc mine and refinery in Katowice, Poland 1936, Workers and townspeople in Katowice, Poland 1936, Jewish quarters Krakow and Warsaw 1936; Jewish teens, Edward Smigly-Rydz becomes Field Marshall 1936, Establishing shots, street scenes of daily life in Warsaw, Passengers boarding a train in Poland, near Warsaw, Animated map and graphics of Poland for the film "Poland - the Country and the People", Polish port city of Gdynia and schoolgirls in Gdansk, Prelude to war and scenes of destruction inflicted by the invading German army in Warsaw, Workers building the Pilsudski mound near Krakow, Poland, Poles bury their war dead, Warsaw, Poland 1946, Scenes of destruction in Warsaw, Poland 1946, Schoolhouse in the region of Katowice on the anniversary of the school's opening, Staged (comic) sequence in a central Polish village, Gdansk and Krakow scenes, daily life in Poland, Industry in Poland, mining in Upper Silesia, About the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive. Play sequence continues until 01:12:47:00 where the subject shifts to scenes of the rural countryside, the camera pans landscape: establishing shots, subject returns to children on the river playing and pretending to be sword fighters. Boys running in woods. AS of vehicular traffic. Man sitting in cell with bars on the window. INT, women sitting at tables and sewing clothing in a large room. 01:05:48:22: MS residents milling about on the street, sitting on chairs, surrounded by the few belongings they have left- several young women, one man. She begins talking about the United States and New York City. INT, VS, young men at a large cafeterias style table, eating,drinking and horsing around. Footage of Polish Cavalry soldiers. Traffic cop directs traffic in busy town square. Mechanic working on coal/rail engine. LS tractor in a field with farm buildings behind it. HAS of the ceremony in the courtyard. Men and women are present, cooking, eating, talking, doing household chores. Cut to another intersection, and then another with people entering a travel agency and CUs of posters of Budapest and an international music festival in the windows. Large wooden cross framed by a window, shot from INT to EXT. DPs wave and the train departs. MS, castle of Polish kings (Wawel) in Krakow, closer view of tourists. In regards to your last question, I think it much, much, much more likely that the report you're searching for was simply never transferred to us than that it was "withdrawn". Scene of men leaving the factory on bikes, some women, some children, and several Austrians (non DPs) are in the group as well. 01:08:24:00 Scene of destruction, birds take flight, INTs of the Catholic hospital, the nurses and mothers with newborn babies leaving the destroyed building. Some look directly at the camera, several avoid it. One of the women is making coffee on the stove. Park in Berlin, several people walk by, people sitting on wooden benches in the park, a child plays as an older woman looks on. Man meticulously shines a woman's shoes. 01:10:04 Nazis with foreign diplomats/representatives (possibly Spanish & Italian fascists), VAR CUs. 01:04:40:11 to 01:05:02:00 Young men and women gathered in a hall for a social, and then seated to watch a musical performance; band on stage, several cuts back and forth between musicians and audience. LS of a zinc mine/refinery, labeled in Julien Bryan's original notes as "Catowicz, Silesia - Giesche Zinc Mine." **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. Two rabbis put away Torah scrolls and pull a curtain with an embroidered Star of David closed. A worker counts the smelting ovens/jets. Expressions on the faces of refugees range from terrified to elated. CU, map of Yugoslavia. Medical journals. Queue, checking tags with numbers. Washington, DC 20024-2126 MS of the family back at the processing center. Music recital, woman plays piano, hand painted sign above stage reads: "E. Grieg 1845-1907, sulla Peer Gint, Trabka G. Bizel Puzon Walloinia Tuba, suita L'Artesienne". CU, iris in the zinc-smelting furnace, back to the girls and needlework, back to the zinc refinery, workers exiting the refinery. Movie cameras set atop automobiles. 01:11:57 The nanny/mommy scene in the park with VS, CUs on babies, toddlers, prams, etc. Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Quick succession of shots seen earlier: women talking on the street, young girls posing without their mother (more here as their mother steps out of the frame), the girls continue, sheepishly to walk toward the camera, they hold each others hands, the younger sister looks back at her mother rather than at the camera. They are all in suits and ties, some in trench coats and hats, and they keep digging. CUs, lens, laborers, on lunch break, polishing, inserting film into camera. People exiting the building and walking under a sign with an American flag that reads VEREINIGTE STAATEN. Men look at a display labeled WHLT DAS VOLK DER USA EINEN PRSIDENTEN. Many people seated at tables covered with newspapers and books in a reading room. CU, worker takes off his mask as he exits the zinc refinery. City. 01:08:24 Hang gliding. Cows pass a barn. They are on their way to the United States, a large painted banner on the docks reads: "Welcome to the first DP Emigrants to the US, Bremerhaven Port of Embarkation" Refugees board the ship (the General Wm. More soldiers parading, BDM walking in FG across square, crowd saluting, BDM handing out paper bags of food to official guests (seated). Montage of images of the United States begins. Farmers working. The names of relatives, etc. Eyeglass shop. Scene with the workers collecting their bicycles at the end of the day. Sign "Unser gruss ist 'Heil Hitler'". 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, Immigrant Records at the National Archives, list of all the digitized records available on our partners' websites, USCIS Freedom of Information Act Program (FOIA). Some scenes seem to be in the Kazimierz section (Jewish quarter) of Krakow. Outdoor caf - Kranzler. Scenic overlook with tables set up. **From Julien Bryan's film "Poland the Country and the People" released in 1948, shot 1936-1937. Scene with six Polish soldiers sitting down, looking at papers or maps and discussing something. As the DPs board the ship, US Army man directs them from the top of gangplank: men are sent to one side, women and children to the other. EXT Eleanor Roosevelt walking with academics, wearing hood and holding wreath and piece of paper. [3] This voyage was the second of almost 150 "Fifth Fleet" voyages by some 40 ships bringing refugees of World War II to Australia. More street scenes in Danzig, men's clothing store with men doing some window shopping. VS of people on the bridge, then more destruction along railway lines, and people swarming out of their neighborhoods. On river, boats in BG. EXT, VS of Prague, large municipal building, trolley car passing through frame, etc. BDM girls eating, with group leader, CU BDM flag, reading magazine, resting. The woman looks disappointed and the man returns to his measurements. CUs, the listening audience. VS of the new mothers and newborns. The Germans deliberately chose this day to set the Jewish quarter on fire, burning and destroying more than 20 full city blocks. Newspaper. Customs Passenger Lists between 1820 and 1891 asked for. VS, inside near the furnaces, men coming out for a break and getting water, women sorting the ore before it is smelted, the conveyor belt from the mine shaft, men drilling inside the mine. LS: Autobahn construction: large crane, digger and dirt, rocks for construction, workers. 0001 ABELE Aina 0002 ABELTINS Elze In Warsaw, streets of the Jewish quarter, religious Jews walking in the street, scenes of a funeral, for Marja Steinberger who was 70 years old- a funeral announcement is filmed in CU at 01:17:18:17. Man on hands and knees scrubs floor of large hallway with the silhouette of a man pacing in FG. Between 1935 and 1938, he captured unique records of ordinary people and life in Nazi Germany and in Poland, including Jewish areas of Warsaw and Krakow and anti-Jewish signs in Germany. The bear plays with the cart and the horse, attempting to get the horse to move, eventually the driver of the carriage gets the horse moving again. LS, parade with flags. The camera pans the bridge and the tops of the buildings, to reveal bas relief details in the facade as well as decorative columns in relief. Polish cavalry crosses a stream, snowy field. 4. City street. Visitors entering and exiting the building. Port: MS of part of the ship the "US Army Transport General William M. Black," passengers wave from the deck of the ship to the camera, a banner on the lower deck of the ship reads: "America Welcomes Its New Citizens," camera pans to upper deck of ship where a banner reads: "Ship to Freedom." This series of outtakes features adolescents (both male and female) in the mountains in France playing volleyball and other sports, dancing, singing and engaging in various outdoor activities at a youth camp. Reconstruction. MSs, CUs children boarding ship. A woman walks through the room with two shirts. English intertitles. MCU and CU of dockworkers in Gdynia, loading materials onto ships for transport. Outside the school during recess, students play and move around the yard before returning to the classroom. Older peasant woman, who stops while walking along a road to kiss a tree, she then continues on. CUs, street lamp. Windows of houses. City scenes, buildings, bus, Polish soldiers, nun. The Venezuelan mission representative locates Venezuela on a large map of South America for the family, as they look on and ask questions. Store workers moving a display.Older, poorer orthodox man, scenes of the old market place. On 1 March 1950 she was transferred to the Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS) as USNS General M. B. Stewart (T-AP-140). Peasants/farmers shovel and load hay. She was transferred to the U.S. Army as USAT General R. M. Blatchford in 1946. Boat dock, Bremerhaven port. Boys stand in front of a doorway. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. Elaborate Russian Orthodox church. The inmate is in the background, and his figure is well lit. Date of Departure: 21 July 1950. 01:02:01 Small town in Germany. How do I best determine which scenario is correct? 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